Five beaches
The coast of 6 June.
Five beaches on one map; then the bocage; then Falaise. Three maps, not one sand photo.
Colleville's rows are a map of US counties.
Maps
Airborne drops
Flanks.
Bocage / Caen
June-July.
Cobra-Falaise
Breakout.
Cemetery belt
Memory map.
Portrayals
The Longest Day
1962 ensemble icon.
Saving Private Ryan
1998 Omaha.
Band of Brothers (Carentan etc.)
A later serial pilgrimage.
Juno Beach Centre
Canadian corrective.
Caen Memorial
A fuller French frame.
Churchill's memoirs
The British prose canon.
Rituals
6 June ceremonies
Heads of state on the sand.
School battlefield tours
A civic rite in the UK/US/CA.
Veteran (now rare) returns
A closing ritual.
Sayings
The English sacred beach should not erase French rubble or Soviet June 1944.
Korean readers: this is the amphibious ancestor story, not a peninsula story -- until Inchon.